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  17 May 2023
  VATICAN - Francis Xavier's apostolic zeal: leaving one's homeland to preach the Gospel is the greatness of every missionary Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today's general audience was dedicated to Saint Francis Xavier, Patron of the missions. Continuing the cycle of catecheses dedicated to the "passion for evangelization", Pope Francis first ...
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  17 May 2023
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Families "promoters of human life, builders of society, custodians of the common home and active subjects of evangelization" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "The purpose is to highlight that the family, living its vocation to be a community of life and love, is the protagonist of human life in all its dimensions. We need families to increasingly assu ...
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  16 May 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - War and cyclone, a nation on its knees Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - In Sittwe, capital of the Biman State of Rakhine, in western Myanmar, cyclone Mocha, which hit the area on May 14 and 15, killed at least 40 people, devastating houses, fields, also destroying ...
• 16 May 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - After the conflicts in the east of the country, instability in the west which is approaching the capital Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The latent conflict in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo is worsening, reaching areas not far from the capital, Kinshasa. Between May 11 and 13, the "Mobondo" militia of the Yaka co ...
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  16 May 2023
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Educating young people for peace, a sign of hope in the midst of the Colombian conflict Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Education is essential to prevent children and adolescents from repeating the violence that plagues the region. This was stated by Juan Casas, director of the Jesuit Refugee Service Colombia (JRS ...
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  16 May 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - A month of war: the population is at the end of their tether and the country in chaos Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Fighting and looting continue to hinder humanitarian groups from working to help the Sudanese population whom are exhausted after a month of armed conflict. The situation in the country does no ...
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  15 May 2023
  AMERICA/CHILE - God's wisdom contrasts with 'politics' and many demographic 'programs': Bishop of Melipilla on Mother's Day Melipilla (Agenzia Fides) - "Celebrating Mother's Day must also mean a willingness on the part of those responsible for work, health, business and housing programs, so that women can fulfill their mission of motherhood w ...
• 15 May 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - President William Ruto has apologised to Kenya over the Shakohola massacre Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – In the country which is shocked by the massacre in the Shakahola forest (see Fides, 3/5/2023), requests are multiplying to regulate not so much freedom of worship as the compliance with the la ...
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  15 May 2023
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Acts of vandalism in the St. Carol Lwanga cathedral Kahama (Agenzia Fides) - In these days the bishops of Tanzania are scheduled to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican to discuss, among other things, alarming issues such as the desecration of several buildings of the Ca ...
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  15 May 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Karnataka chooses the Congress Party: a change for democracy and freedom Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "The election result in Karnataka could be a decisive moment in India's recent political history. The defeat of the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), the ruling party until now in the state and al ...
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  15 May 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - "Self-determination and a State for the Palestinian people". Heads of Churches in Jerusalem commemorate 75 years since the "Nakba" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem urge all to pray and work "so that God may grant wisdom to move towards a better future, so that the Palestinian people may be granted the right t ...
• 15 May 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Kisangani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 13, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Fr. Lénard Ndjate, M.C.C.I., until now provincial of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus in the Democratic Republ ...
• 15 May 2023
  AFRICA/COTE D’IVOIRE - Appointment of bishop of Katiola Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 13, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Honoré Beugré Dakpa, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Gagnoa, until now secretary general of the Catholic University of ...
• 15 May 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of auxiliary bishop of Bombay, Msgr. Allwyn D'Silva Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 13, 2023, the Holy Father Francis accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Bombay, India, presented by Bishop Allwyn D’Silva, titular of D ...
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  14 May 2023
  Cardinal Tagle: This is how Chinese Catholics love and follow the Successor of Peter Rome (Agenzia Fides) - We publish the full version of the speech given by Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, on the occasion of the presentation of the volume in Chinese " ...